Methadone

When used as a pain reliever, methadone is especially likely to cause unintentional overdoses.

After 20 years of skyrocketing addiction rates, how can the United States get its pill problem under control?

Methadone could have saved David Stojcevski, who died on the floor of his jail cell last year.

New research suggests that maintaining methadone treatment in jails and prisons would save lives.

Hailed as the most compassionate way for the criminal justice system to deal with addicts, drug courts were designed to balance punishment with rehabilitation. But after 25 years, the verdict is in: Drug courts embolden judges to practice medicine without a license—and they put lives in danger.

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

Too often, Americans with painful medical conditions who misuse pain pills like Oxycontin are denied further treatment and even prosecuted. There are more effective, enlightened responses—as the U.K. has shown for decades.

Matt Bowden (sometimes known as Starboy, an "interdimensional traveler") helped create one of the most viral outbreaks of new drugs in history. He might also have the antidote.

We're winning: More progress has been made toward enlightened drug policies and treatment in the past five years than in the previous 25. Here's an advocacy agenda to take us even closer to the future we need.

New legislation in Tennessee has implications much wider than the use of illegal drugs by pregnant mothers-to-be.

How sleight-of-hand—and obsessive-compulsive disorder—helped the guitarist shake 30 years of addiction.

Examining the medical, moral, and monetary decisions that Alkermes made to bring its drug Vivitrol to market—including a controversial trial in Russia. Are the critics right to cry foul?